Improvement in devices for agitating salt in cruets



No.136,386. PatentedMarch4,l873.

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FRANCIS B. RICHARDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR AGITATING SALT IN CRUETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,386, dated March 4,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS B. Brennan- SON, of Boston, Suffolk county,Massachusetts, have invented a Device for Agitating Salt within Bottlesor Oruets, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to means for disturbing or agitating a quantityof salt in a bottle or cruet, in order that'it may be at all times in apulverized or loose condition; and consists in a tumbling-bar ofsuitable form to be placed in a bottle or cruet, and which, upon shakingof the bottle, tumbles or plays within the salt, and disturbs andpulverizes it to such an extent as to allow it to pass easily and freelythrough the interstices of the perforated cap of the bottle.

The drawing accompanying this specification represents, in Figure 1, asectional side view of my invention; Fig. 2 being a transverse or crosssection of the same.

In this drawing, A represents the implement embodying my presentinvention as composed of a bar, a, of nearly prismatic form, thelongitudinal ribs or pins b of which terminate in thin edges, which areconverted into saw-teeth or other proper-shaped points, 0 c, &c. The barterminates at one or both ends in a cylindrical cup-shaped or turretedhead, d, whose outer end is concave or hollow, with the exception of acentral cone or point, e, which makes part of it, the annular edge ofsuch head being thin and formed into teeth ff, 860., similar to theteeth a c, 850., before named, the latter-named teeth, f f, 850.,surrounding the point e in a clutch.

The teeth ff, &c., and the point 0 assist the teeth 0 0 very materiallyin cutting, comminuting, and pulverizing the salt.

The entire implement, as above described, is to be cast in a compositionmold in-one mass of metal, after the usual method of manufacturing sucharticles.

The teeth 0 upon the longitudinal ribs I act in a novel and highlyeffective manner to cut, divide, and pulverize the salt.

Claim.

The herein-described tumbling rod or bar, composed of the barred toothedprism a and serrated or toothed head or heads d, substan-

